Button-fastening



(No Model.)

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' BUTTON FASTENING.

Patented Got. 18l 1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE O. SCHNELLER, OF ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT.

BUTTON-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,511, dated October 18, 1881.

Application tiled February 23, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE O. SGHNELLER, of Ansonia, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Button-Fastenings; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure1,theeyeletdetached; Fig.2,asection through the socket formed by the eyelet to receive the button; Figs. 3 and 4, vertical sections of the buttons attached.

This invention rel ites to an improvement in devices for attaching buttons to wearing-apparel, and like purposes.

In the usual construction of button-fasteners the shank of the button is introduced directly through the fabric, and brought to bear upon opposite sides ot the fabric, the fabric itself forming the socket for the support of the button. There being no protection in the fabric against the strain upon the shank of the button, it frequently occurs that the fabric gives way and the fastening pulls through.

The object of this invention is to form a metal socket in the fabric to receive the shank of the button, so that the hole through the fabric is protected against the strain upon the shank; and the invention consists in such a met-al socket introduced and made fast in the fabric, combined with a button taking a bearing upon the opposite sides, as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents the fabric or part of the garment or article to which the button is to be attached. At the point where the button is to be attached a metal socket, B, is introduced. The best form for this socket is an eyelet, as seen in Fig. l, introduced in one side and closed hard down upon the opposite side, as seen in Fig. 2.

Various kinds of fasteners may be used in connection with this socket, two common fast eners being shown in Figs. 3 and 4. In Fig. 3

the button C is provided with a shank, D, contracted so as to pass through the socket and take a bearin g thereon on the button side and protrude on the opposite side, as seen in broken lines. Then/with any suitable device the end of the shank is spread and struck down upon that side of the socket, as seen in Fig. 3, drawing the shoulder to a hard bearing on the butt-on side and firmly securing the button to the socket; or, in case of a button, E, as seen in Fig. ehwhich has a tubular shank, F, constructed with a flange, a, and which is secured by a headed tubular stud, G, entered from the opposite side, the flange a of this button is set upon the button side of the socket, then the headed stud passed through the socket and forced into the button, the end of the stud spreading within the button in the usual manner for this class of fasteners. As in the first case, the button is rmly united to the socket, and because the socket is rmiy attached to the fabric or article, the strain upon the button is taken by the socket, and the usual breaking away ofthe garment is avoided.

The great advantage derived from the use ot' the socket arises from the fact that it can be made to more perfectly and rigidly engage the material around the hole than the shank of the button can be made to do.

The buttons described and their method of attach mentare sufticien tto enable those skilled in the art to attach any of the usual buttonfasteners.

I claim- The herein-described button-fastening, cousisting of a metal socket, B, closed down upon both sides of the article to which the button is to be attached, combined with a button the shank of which is constructed to take its bearing upon the button side ofthe socket, and the fastening device to take its bearing upon the opposite or reverse side of the socket, substantially as described.

GEO. O. SCHNELLER.

Witnesses:

J. H. SHUMWAY, L. D. ROGERS. 

